Art Quote by Stephen Graham Jones Download Open image “Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.” — Stephen Graham Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Carrie Crafts Ends Ninety Percent Pieces
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. — Henry Threadgill Copy Share Image
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through. — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside. — Leonardo Drew Copy Share Image
You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.” — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences,… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway.” — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four,… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long,… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image